Quite a bit of enthusiasm seems to be building for ARM's upcoming processor for netbooks and other lightweight computing devices. The Cortex-A9 is promised to have substantially better performance than the current crop of AMD processors, and a video released by AMD ARM gives a pretty convincing picture that the Cortex-A9 will have comparable performance to the Atom. Watch the video after the jump.

Impressive for a less that half processing power but some questions do stand.

1 - What is the configuration of those machines?
Tough the configurations should be the same, as ARM would not use optimized ARM against non-optimized Intel code
It should be reminded that also reduces the reference to the existing/absence of a graphic card (using VESA)

2 - what are the timings?
Yes they are similar. But the eye is not a good clue of what is happening when the starting point is missed.

Anyway... for a 500MHz CPU... it is impressive.
True, the result is less impressive.
But taking into account everything... It can be an interesting match.

These were in equal conditions
But those will not be so equal on the final products.
It would then be more interesting!